Working with students
Career activities for all teachers
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General career activities
"The ultimate goal of career education and guidance is for students to develop the understandings, skills, and attitudes that they need to make positive career decisions throughout their lives. The particular aims of career education and guidance are for individual students to:
- develop self-awareness
- become aware of opportunities
- make decisions and plan
- take action."
Source: Career Education and Guidance in NZ, Learning Media, 2002.
General activities
Career activities for Year 7 and 8 students
- Integrate career education into regular classroom programmes
"At upper primary and intermediate school, students increase their knowledge and understanding of themselves as well as their awareness of opportunities, their decision-making and planning skills, and their ability to take action. They also begin to develop transferable skills in research and goal setting. Career education should be integrated into regular classroom programmes in the essential learning areas (for example, a social studies unit on the changing nature of work or a technology unit on how a specific technology has impacted on the world of work)."
Source: Career Education and Guidance in NZ, Learning Media, 2002.
Activities for Years 7 and 8
Career activities for Year 9 and 10 students
"As they enter secondary education, students continue to build their understanding of themselves and their opportunities, with a greater emphasis on how occupations fit with their own strengths, interests, and values. Their career education needs become more personalised, and they need to develop sound skills in planning, decision making, taking action so that they can make informed and appropriate subject choices.
"Classroom teachers can best help their students to achieve this by:
- incorporating career education into programmes across the curriculum as a regular part of learning
- making the skills, knowledge, and attitudes required in particular careers explicit to the students
- encouraging the students to evaluate their own skills, knowledge, and attitudes."
Source: Career Education and Guidance in NZ, Learning Media, 2002.
Activities for Years 9 and 10
Career activities for Year 11 students
"Many opportunities for career education and guidance occur from Year 11 onwards. Students will be developing clear ideas of their career goals along with the skills to make realistic career decisions and plans. They can be encouraged to take a number of steps, including researching opportunities, writing a curriculum vitae, completing applications for courses and jobs, gaining work experience, practising interviews, and making decisions on future work or study opportunities. Students have access to a wide range of achievement and unit standards, so it is important to help them to choose those that allow progress in their areas of career interest and in the skills and attitudes they will need for the world of work and further learning."
Source: Career Education and Guidance in NZ, Learning Media, 2002.
